*NOTE: I know this game was made by Blue Castle Games, in Canada, but it’s still basically the same game as DR1. Same people worked on it too, and Capcom made the first game.* I believe this game demonstrates the theory that Eastern game developers have already lost to the West. What is this new [...]
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Tekken 6: Hands On
Tekken 6 is essentially done, been out in Japan for a while, and will hit American shores within weeks. With all that said, we had to get our hands on the new fighter at PAX. The first thing you’ll notice is the character roster is even larger than the one in Tekken 5. Just about [...]
NZXT Beta Case Review
Remember when Batman Begins came out? He was having to run across the city and was getting his ass kicked by every building he scrambled down. And then… that tank thing came along. The best piece of butt-kickery to grace a superhero with no powers. How awesome would it be to run around the city [...]
Interview with Randall Queen of Verbatim
Recently I had a chance to interview Randall F. Queen, President of Verbatim America. Queen is a 20-year veteran with Verbatim, and was promoted from vice president of operations in early 2002. Since then he has guided the growth and expansion of the company beyond optical storage to encompass four operating units – hard disk, [...]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine PSP Review
It’s official. This comic-turned-movie thing isn’t going to end. Neither is the comic-turned-movie-turned-game fad either. At least we’ve moved beyond the horrific gameplay of the old NES version of the X-Men games. Remember Cyclops’ retarded laser blast? It damaged none of the blocky surroundings. Only the baddies got the full punch. That’s what happens when [...]
Square Enix vs. The Economy
Welcome to the Weekend Edition of THE WRATH OF EL PATO. The column that never falls on hard times during a crappy economy. First things first, today I received a memo from “upstairs” saying that an old OCmodshop favorite, Trish Oliver is back to show us what good content is. Cool! Trish’s writing is immaculate [...]
RIP EGM, Microsoft, Midway Sucks
Happy New Year to all! Welcome to the first Wrath of El Pato for 2009. I hope everyone had a good Christmas and had Santa show up at their door loaded with presents. I got a pink slip! It was so nice of him, let the job hunt begin! It’s been so long since I’ve [...]
Shrinking Computing: Processors, Laptops and Phones
Bright Idea – Just so no one missed the fact that Intel’s Craig Barrett was talking about another bright idea that the company’s engineering teams had developed the events folks put him in front of a light bulb. It didn’t work because we could barely see the itty-bitty device he held in his hand at [...]
Reporting from PAX 2008
PAX, the Penny Arcade Expo, is the largest gaming festival in North America representing tabletop, console and PC gaming. Three days of tournaments, freplay, nerdcore concerts, panel discussions, the latest from top game publishers and developers, the PAX 10 independent games showcase and thousands of attendees who know their stuff when it comes to games. [...]
Final Fantasy IV Revisited
There was once a time when RPG’s didn’t have flashy cinematics, real time battles, and overly clichéd plots. There was a game that was innovative for improving the turn based formula, giving a story like none have ever seen, and a translation none would want to see again. Of course, I am talking about Final [...]
Arkanoid DS Review
Title Arkanoid DS Publisher Taito Developer Taito Release Date June 17th, 2008 Genre Arcade Platform Nintendo DS Rating Everyone Arkanoid DS had some promise for arcade game lovers when it was released in Japan earlier this year. For the United States version, Arkanoid DS has lost all of its appeal as a decent arcade title [...]
Raiders of the Blu Ark
Some called it a battle. Others a war. But the blue laser thing was more like a tussle…a two year tussle. HD DVD had Toshiba, the DVD Forum (that sure helped DVD-RAM?) and a few studios that were kinda, maybe, sorta on their side. Oh yeah…and Microsoft.BD had Sony and its string of content owners, Panasonic, [...]
Neves for Nintendo DS
Casual games are becoming more and more popular, possibly because more and more people are looking for a quick diversion from their daily lives. The Nintendo DS is one of the most popular casual game platforms, due in part to its ease of use and high portability. Puzzle and other “brain” games are making more [...]
The Swiss Army Phone
You probably didn’t know it (we didn’t really) but they have a name — The Thumb Generation — Teens/Tweens that text, IM with their everything cell phones. They do everything except take photos, shoot video, download 50 songs at a crack. They may get there but it’s going to take time — lots of time [...]
Top 20 Articles of 2006
OCModShop publishes a lot of articles, reviews, news and game cheats… and it is our readers who decide which articles are the best! We have compiled the top twenty articles from 2006 and listed them for another round of beating the dead horse… erm… I mean for you to take another gander at what you, [...]
Playstation 3 Release Party
Some die-hard Sony fanboys started camping outside of Best Buy and other stores on Tuesday, an entire three days before launch, but they have been waiting for years for this day. November 17, 2006 marks the launch of the Sony Playstation 3 in the U.S., one week after the PS3 was launched in its home [...]
Scythe MINE CPU Cooler Review
In an ever-ending quest to find true silence, I have previously used watercooling, but today fans and cooling solutions have progressed to their its max and aircooling is becoming just as silent. Zalman is a leader in this industry, but there are many other heatsinks that do the job just as well. One of these [...]
Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII
The Xbox 360 has seen it’s first 6 months come and go. And what do we have to show for it? One really kick ass RPG in Elder Scrolls, one ball busting first person shooter in Call of Duty 2 and one psycho crazy driving game in Burnout revenge. From there, we get a couple [...]
Skythe Katana Cu Heatsink
The PC air cooling market is getting some stiff competition from liquid cooling products.. Liquid cooling products are becoming more and more inexpensive while shrinking in size, which is giving air coolers a run for their money. Scythe began its operation and business in November of 2002 as is a distributor and manufacturer of PC [...]
Tomb Raider Legend (PC, Xbox 360) Review
Title Tomb Raider: Legend Rating Teen (T) for language and violence Publisher Eidos Developer Crystal Dynamics Release Date April 11, 2006 Platfiorm Xbox 360, XBox, PC, Playstation 2, Gamecube Genre Action / Third-person shooter Features 1 Player, Dolby Digital, 2.4MB to save game, HDTV 480p/720p/1080i What’s that? I’m sorry, you’ll have to speak up. You [...]
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